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Sarah Jane McMahon

Opera Lively is starting our coverage of the sublime operatic masterpiece Dialogues of the Carmelites by Francis Poulenc, being given in semi-staged form by Winston-Salem Symphony and in English translation on November 16 and 18, 2014 in Winston-Salem, NC, then the same production will go to Portland, Oregon, with the Portland Symphony on March 8, 2015.

As the first step of our coverage, we interviewed the singer in the main role of Blanche, the beautiful American soprano Sarah Jane McMahon, not only on her participation in this opera, but also on her life and career.
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